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Post by chadhill on Oct 17, 2010 12:15:16 GMT 8
Okla, I'll try to dig out that Life magazine and post some things. I have a number of them (WW2 but most are off-target battle wise for this forum) however, as you can see below I still have to learn about posting large images...
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Post by batteryboy on Dec 8, 2010 22:58:57 GMT 8
Hi Chad,
Nice shots and nice find on the 81mm round and 14-inch powder can. Same with the frag grenade and guilley helmet.
Cheers,
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Post by chadhill on Oct 8, 2012 4:37:42 GMT 8
Not exactly a "Topside" relic...I got this during my PI tour in the mid-late 1980s. Does anyone know how to tell what month and year the bill was printed?
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Post by pdh54 on Oct 8, 2012 12:25:44 GMT 8
From all accounts I could find on the internet, these were printed in 1944. The following info was posted on about 4 different sites verbatim: "The 'Victory' note series was printed in 1944, to be used upon the return of MacArthur. When he came ashore in Leyte on Oct. 20th, 1944, he was purportedly carrying some of these in his pocket. They definitely brought many crates full of these notes with them during this landing. According to a BEP report the number 66 (for the series) was chosen because that was President Quezon's age when he died just prior to the liberation of the Philippines. VICTORY notes were printed at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing- the last Philippine currency printed by the US. Replacement notes are indicated by a star prefix to the serial number. There are also signature combinations which are harder to find." There were 12,439,635 of the 20 Peso notes with the signatures of S. Osmena and J Hernandez on them. They also have a depiction of Mount Mayon on one side.
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Post by okla on Oct 8, 2012 23:24:19 GMT 8
Hey Patty....Methinks 'ole Chad had about as much chance as a snowball in Hell if he thought he could slip this "Peso Puzzle" past you. Is he sulking in his room as we speak??? lol. Postscript...I well remember, as a kid during the latter part of the "Big" War, some US Currency floating around that had the word "Hawaii" super imposed on the reverse side of some denominations. I used to wonder what the point was in putting this type paper money into circulation. It probably was used to pay the military,etc in Hawaii and, of course, some of it trickled back stateside. All I do know was that it was "spendable" at the movies and malt shops by this youngster.
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Post by pdh54 on Oct 9, 2012 1:47:02 GMT 8
Okla, Laughingly (I dislike lol), no he had already gone to sleep. I don't think he saw it til this morning as we were out the door trying to get work done on son's Chevy S-10 before he leaves for Quantico (TBS Marine Officer School) next month. We have such a different approach to looking things up. He has read sooooo much stuff and can practically recall where to find something at the drop of a hat. It's spooky sometimes. I just ask about some small thing and he runs and gets a book or has a picture of it within 10 minutes or so. I don't mind looking up endlessly on google or wherever, spending an hour or so at a time. I like the exploration. I had seen some results on google searches that showed sites to find out more about the Hawaii money, but I didn't look at them last night. Patty
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Post by chadhill on Oct 9, 2012 6:25:31 GMT 8
Pdh54 is being quite generous about my memory. Half the time I can't remember where I left my cell phone . She's the sharp one...picked up on these Corregidor and Bataan things completely of her own initiative- I've been amazed at how quickly she did, too. Got to be smart, she married me. ;D.
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Post by chadhill on Oct 14, 2012 8:43:41 GMT 8
More $ from the 1980s PI tour. I knew there were fake Japanese pesos going around, but these had the right "feel". Does anyone know how to tell if they're authentic? Thanks, Chad
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Post by EXO on Oct 14, 2012 20:41:34 GMT 8
Yes, there are still large numbers of these notes around - they are so worthless, there's no money to be made replicating them.
Actually, they are worth about 20 peso per note, irrespective of face value. There's an antique shop at the Megamall which sells them, and numbers of other wartime guerilla currency. I purchased a number of each of them to reproduce as page fillers for for the ends of chapters in one of the books I was re-doing.
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Post by chadhill on Oct 15, 2012 3:00:41 GMT 8
Kinda sounds like (oh, I hope not) the direction the US dollar could be headed in...
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